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Amtrak’s southbound Downeaster train 686 is seen crossing the Merrimack River in Haverhill, MA (from railpictures.com) The U.S. Department of Transportation received 848 applications for TIGER (Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery) grants. According to U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood only 46 transportation projects in 33 states and Puerto Rico were funded.…
Read More »The Governor Patrick/ Lt. Governor Murray administration announces a $1.6 million STEM grant to UMass Lowell: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 – The Patrick-Murray Administration today announced a $1.6 million grant to the University of Massachusetts Lowell for the creation of a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) teacher preparation program in Massachusetts. This initiative,…
Read More »It seems that every year there is a struggle to avoid draconian cuts in the federal home heating fuel assistance appropriation so vital to low-income residents of the Northeast and elsewhere. Again this year – thousands of poor people across the Northeast are facing a difficult winter with substantially less home heating aid coming from…
Read More »Mass Moments reminds us that on the evening of December 11, 1995 – a fire reduced Malden Mills to rubble. It was one of the worst in the state’s history. Seven hundred people were at work in the factory when, at a little past 8:00 p.m., a boiler exploded in one…
Read More »Over on the Pollard Memorial Library blog, Sean Thibodeau invites those library users – like me – who search, research and reserve books using the fairly new Evergreen system to take a survey. The regional library consortium – Merrimack Vallery Libray Consortium (MVLC) – seven months ago switched over to…
Read More »Greater Lowell Community Foundation Grant Awardees from a past Philanthropy Day Last night the Greater Lowell Community Foundation presented its annual “Celebrate Giving” evening – an event held since 1998 – first as a daytime event of workshops and lunch now as an early evening event more accessible to people…
Read More »From breakingnews on the Lowell Sun web-site: – State House News and Matt Murphy – late of the Lowell Sun staff – is reporting that Speaker DeLeo has summoned members to the State House for a Democratic caucus meeting tomorrow morning. Now that the redistricting dilemna has been addressed and voted and the…
Read More »St. Francis Xavier, S.J. (1506-1552) With all the Lowell connections, it’s important to note that today December 3 is the Feast Day of St. Francis Xavier. Francis Xavier was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary, born in Navarre – one of the seven founders of the Society of Jesus along with teacher and…
Read More »The Lowell Sun and other media outlets are reporting on breakingnews that State Senator Susan Fargo will face a primary challenge in 2012 from Democrat Michael Barrett. Fargo represents the Third Middlesex District with includes the communities of Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln, Waltham, Weston and parts of Sudbury and Lexington. Michael-Barrett…
Read More »In a article in today’s Eagle tribune writer Alex Bloom – who has been closely following the actvities around a takeover of the Lawrence schools by the Commonweath – tells us that January 1, 2012 is the date when the schools will be under the control and direction of a…
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